Photos: Cold, snow and wind batter the Omaha area
See photos of the snow and wind in the Omaha area in mid-January 2024.
Jose Galeno shoves south 24th Street near N Street as an overnight snow dumped several inches in the Omaha area on Friday, Jan. 12, 2024.
Not all the lanes on I480 were clear as snow continued to fall in the morning on Friday, Jan. 12, 2024.
Signs on US Highway 75 advise against travel due to snow, looking south from F Street on Friday, Jan. 12, 2024.
Snow is piled into a windrow in the center of Douglas Street at 14th Street as an ORBT bus stops on Friday, Jan. 12, 2024.
A person uses a snow blower on south 24th Street, near N Street on Friday, Jan. 12, 2024.
A person uses a snow blower on south 24th Street, near N Street on Friday, Jan. 12, 2024.
Blowing snow made it hard to keep lanes on US Highway 75 clear, looking south from F Street on Friday, Jan. 12, 2024.
Jose Galeno shoves south 24th Street near N Street after an overnight snow dumped several inches in the Omaha area on Friday, Jan. 12, 2024.
Light and ice crystals combine to create a vertical rainbow effect as heavy snow and bitter cold blanket Omaha on Saturday, Jan. 13, 2024.
A person uses a snow blower as heavy snow and bitter cold blanket Omaha on Friday, Jan. 12, 2024.
Icicles hang on a home near 30th Street as bitter cold blanket Omaha on Saturday, Jan. 13, 2024.
People walk across 10th Street as bitter cold blankets Omaha on Saturday, Jan. 13, 2024.
Cars head west on Farnam Street toward 36th Street as workers try to clear the snow on Friday, Jan. 12, 2024.
A pedestrian crosses Dodge Street at 16th Street in the blowing snow on Friday, Jan. 12, 2024.
Wind blows snow off of a drift that is almost the same height as parking meters on Farnam Street at 36th Street on Friday, Jan. 12, 2024.
A windrow of snow is piled in the center of Douglas Street on Friday, Jan. 12, 2024.
Cars head west on Farnam Street toward 36th Street in the blowing snow on Friday, Jan. 12, 2024.
Cars head west on Farnam Street toward 36th Street as workers try to clear the snow on Friday, Jan. 12, 2024.
Richard Kyle clears the sidewalk on Center Street by Beals Elementary School on Friday, Jan. 12, 2024.
Ice on the Missouri River looking toward Council Bluffs, Iowa, on Thursday, Jan. 11, 2024. Heavy snow and dangerously low wind chills are expected beginning Thursday night.
Ice on the Missouri River near downtown Omaha on Thursday, Jan. 11, 2024. Heavy snow and dangerously low wind chills are expected beginning Thursday night.
A woman walks a dog at Heartland of America Park in downtown Omaha on Thursday, Jan. 11, 2024. Heavy snow and dangerously low wind chills are expected beginning Thursday night.
Workers remove snow from outside Federal Courthouse in Omaha on Friday, Jan. 12, 2024.
Workers use machinery to remove snow from the sidewalks surrounding the Union Pacific building in Omaha on Friday, Jan. 12, 2024.
Nebraska's recent snow and cold has Lin Guyton desperate for help at her Epona Horse Rescue near Crete.Â
Gov. Jim Pillen declared an emergency as state and county crews worked to dig out from the "crippling storm" that struck the state Thursday and Friday.
